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H.R. 5326: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 112th Congress, 2011–2012 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA10] Status: Passed House Bill titles and the summary above are written by the sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill. Track this bill Take a Position (About Ads | Advertise Here) Bill Overview Status: Introduced May 02, 2012 Reported by Committee May 02, 2012 Passed House May 10, 2012 Passed Senate (not yet occurred) Signed by the President (not yet occurred) This bill passed in the House on May 10, 2012 and goes to the Senate next for consideration. Votes: House: On Passage of the Bill May 10, 2012 2:51 p.m. Passed 247/163 Show 41 additional votes... Prognosis: Just 29% of all House of Representatives bills reported favorably by committee in 2009–2010 were enacted. 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GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries. 5/10/2012--Passed House amended. Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for FY2013 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, for science-related programs, and related agencies. Title I - Department of Commerce Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY2013 for: (1) the International Trade Administration; (2) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (3) the Economic Development Administration; (4) the Minority Business Development Agency; (5) economic and statistical analysis programs; (6) the Bureau of the Census; (7) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (8) the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); (9) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); (10) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and (11) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General. Section 105 - Adopts by reference provisions of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 that: (1) set forth determinations that must be made by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in order for NOAA to enter a contract for development of a major program (an activity approved to proceed to implementation that has an estimated life cycle cost of more than $250 million), and (2) require the Under Secretary to annually submit a Major Program Annual Report that includes such required information for the satellite development program for which NOAA proposes to expend funds in the subsequent year. Section 109 - Directs the Department of Commerce to provide a monthly report to the Appropriations Committees on any official travel to China by any employee of the Department. Title II - Department of Justice Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY2013 for: (1) general administration, including for the Office of Inspector General; (2) the United States Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the Offices of the United States Attorneys, the United States Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the United States Marshals Service; (5) the National Security Division; (6) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (7) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (8) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (9) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); (10) the federal prison system, including for Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated; (11) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs, including for establishment of a national clearinghouse to provide training and technical assistance on issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian and Alaska Native women; (12) Office of Justice programs, including the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, a veterans treatment courts program, the Capital Litigation Improvement Grant Program, the National Criminal History Improvement Program, and a program to monitor prescription drugs and scheduled listed chemical products; and (13) Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS program). Section 202 - Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. Section 217 - Prohibits the use of funds by a federal law enforcement officer to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or suspected to be an agent of a drug cartel, unless U.S. law enforcement personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times. Section 219 - Prohibits the use of funds to require a person licensed to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or importing or manufacturing ammunition to report information to DOJ regarding the sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. Title III - Science Makes appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for the Office of the National Science Board. Title IV - Related Agencies Makes appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights, (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), (3) the International Trade Commission, (4) the Legal Services Corporation, (5) the Marine Mammal Commission, (6) the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), and (7) the State Justice Institute. Title V - General Provisions Section 501 - Sets forth requirements, restrictions, and limitations on the use of funds appropriated by this Act. Section 506 - Makes any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract funded by this Act. Section 509 - Prohibits the use of funds to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the removal by any foreign country of restrictions on marketing of such products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco products of the same type. Section 517 - Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) support or justify the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the U.S. government, or (2) authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of specified statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security letters. Section 526 - Rescinds specified amounts of unobligated balances available to DOJ for specified accounts. Section 529 - Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) transfer or release to or within the United States Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and who is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense (DOD); or (2) construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to detain or imprison such a detainee. Section 531 - Prohibits the distribution of funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. Section 534 - Prohibits the use of funds for NASA or OSTP to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or contract to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally with China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorized by a law enacted after this Act's enactment. Specifies that such limitations shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP has certified: (1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other information with national security or economic security implications to China or a Chinese-owned company; and (2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been determined by the United States to have direct involvement with violations of human rights. Section 535 - Directs the head of any department, agency, board, or commission funded by this Act to submit quarterly reports regarding the costs and contracting procedures relating to each conference held by it during FY2013 for which the cost to the government exceeded $20,000. Section 536 - Prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model of shotgun if: (1) all other legal requirements with respect to the proposed importation are met; and (2) no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes. Section 542 - Prohibits the use of funds by the Attorney General to originate or join in any lawsuit that seeks to overturn, enjoin, or invalidate specified immigration laws in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. Section 547 - Prohibits the use of funds: (1) to defend against any action challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or specified provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, or (2) to litigate against any of the states on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pertaining to secret ballot union elections. Section 549 - Prohibits the use of funds by DOJ: (1) to be a party to a single or multi-state court settlement where funds are removed from any residential mortgage-backed securitization trust, or (2) to bring any action against a state for implementation of a state law requiring voter identification. Section 551 - Prohibits the use of funds: (1) to conduct the American Community Survey, (2) to enforce provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 prohibiting federal agency procurement of an alternative or synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use, other than for research or testing, unless the contract specifies that the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with such fuel must be less than or equal to such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel, or (3) to implement the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order 13547. Section 557 - Reduces amounts available under specified headings under this Act and increases the amounts available to DOJ for emergency federal law enforcement assistance and to the Department of Commerce for NIST industrial technology services. Section 561 - Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of the Defense of Marriage Act, or (2) to carry out the activities of the Climate Change education program or the functions of the Political Science Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of NSF.

(1)
set forth determinations that must be made by the Under Secretary of
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in order for NOAA to enter a contract
for development of a major program (an activity approved to proceed to
implementation that has an estimated life cycle cost of more than $250
million), and

(2)
require the Under Secretary to annually submit a Major Program Annual
Report that includes such required information for the satellite
development program for which NOAA proposes to expend funds in the
subsequent year.

Section
109
-

Directs the Department of Commerce to provide a monthly report to the
Appropriations Committees on any official travel to China by any
employee of the Department.

(1) general administration, including for the Office of Inspector General;

(2) the United States Parole Commission;

(3)
legal activities, including for reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the Offices of the United States
Attorneys, the United States Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets
Forfeiture Fund;

(11)
the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women
prevention and prosecution programs, including for establishment of a
national clearinghouse to provide training and technical assistance on
issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian and Alaska Native
women;

(12)
Office of Justice programs, including the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant Program, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, a
veterans treatment courts program, the Capital Litigation Improvement
Grant Program, the National Criminal History Improvement Program, and a
program to monitor prescription drugs and scheduled listed chemical
products; and

(13) Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS program).

Section
202
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to
term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or
facilitate an abortion.

Section
217
-

Prohibits the use of funds by a federal law enforcement officer to
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or
suspected to be an agent of a drug cartel, unless U.S. law enforcement
personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.

Section
219
-

Prohibits the use of funds to require a person licensed to engage in
the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or
importing or manufacturing ammunition to report information to DOJ
regarding the sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person.

Title
III
-
Science

Makes
appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP); (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for the
Office of the National Science Board.

Title
IV
-
Related Agencies

Makes
appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights, (2)
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), (3) the
International Trade Commission, (4) the Legal Services Corporation, (5)
the Marine Mammal Commission, (6) the Office of the United States Trade
Representative (USTR), and (7) the State Justice Institute.

Title
V
-
General Provisions

Section
501
-

Sets forth requirements, restrictions, and limitations on the use of funds appropriated by this Act.

Section
506
-

Makes any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the
United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or
subcontract funded by this Act.

Section
509
-

Prohibits the use of funds to promote the sale or export of tobacco or
tobacco products or to seek the removal by any foreign country of
restrictions on marketing of such products, except for restrictions
which are not applied equally to all tobacco products of the same type.

Section
517
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) support or justify the use of
torture by any official or contract employee of the U.S. government, or
(2) authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of
specified statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security
letters.

Section
526
-

Rescinds specified amounts of unobligated balances available to DOJ for specified accounts.

Section
529
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) transfer or release to or within the
United States Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a
U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and who is or was
held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense (DOD); or (2) construct,
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories,
or possessions to detain or imprison such a detainee.

Section
531
-

Prohibits the distribution of funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries.

Section
534
-

Prohibits the use of funds for NASA or OSTP to develop, design, plan,
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or
contract to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally with
China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are
specifically authorized by a law enacted after this Act's enactment.

Specifies that such limitations shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP has certified:

(1)
pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other
information with national security or economic security implications to
China or a Chinese-owned company; and

(2)
will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been
determined by the United States to have direct involvement with
violations of human rights.

Section
535
-

Directs the head of any department, agency, board, or commission funded
by this Act to submit quarterly reports regarding the costs and
contracting procedures relating to each conference held by it during
FY2013 for which the cost to the government exceeded $20,000.

Section
536
-

Prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel
to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any
model of shotgun if:

(1) all other legal requirements with respect to the proposed importation are met; and

(2)
no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the
same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to
January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly
suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.

Section
542
-

Prohibits the use of funds by the Attorney General to originate or join
in any lawsuit that seeks to overturn, enjoin, or invalidate specified
immigration laws in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah.

Section
547
-

Prohibits the use of funds: (1) to defend against any action
challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or specified
provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,
or (2) to litigate against any of the states on behalf of the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pertaining to secret ballot union
elections.

Section
549
-

Prohibits the use of funds by DOJ: (1) to be a party to a single or
multi-state court settlement where funds are removed from any
residential mortgage-backed securitization trust, or (2) to bring any
action against a state for implementation of a state law requiring voter
identification.

Section
551
-

Prohibits the use of funds:

(1) to conduct the American Community Survey,

(2)
to enforce provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007 prohibiting federal agency procurement of an alternative or
synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use, other than for research or
testing, unless the contract specifies that the life cycle greenhouse
gas emissions associated with such fuel must be less than or equal to
such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel, or

(3) to implement the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order 13547.

Section
557
-

Reduces amounts available under specified headings under this Act and
increases the amounts available to DOJ for emergency federal law
enforcement assistance and to the Department of Commerce for NIST
industrial technology services.

Section
561
-

Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of the Defense of
Marriage Act, or (2) to carry out the activities of the Climate Change
education program or the functions of the Political Science Program in
the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the Directorate for
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of NSF.

112th Congress, 2011–2012

Making appropriations for the Departments of
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.

(1)
set forth determinations that must be made by the Under Secretary of
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in order for NOAA to enter a contract
for development of a major program (an activity approved to proceed to
implementation that has an estimated life cycle cost of more than $250
million), and

(2)
require the Under Secretary to annually submit a Major Program Annual
Report that includes such required information for the satellite
development program for which NOAA proposes to expend funds in the
subsequent year.

Section
109
-

Directs the Department of Commerce to provide a monthly report to the
Appropriations Committees on any official travel to China by any
employee of the Department.

(1) general administration, including for the Office of Inspector General;

(2) the United States Parole Commission;

(3)
legal activities, including for reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the Offices of the United States
Attorneys, the United States Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets
Forfeiture Fund;

(11)
the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women
prevention and prosecution programs, including for establishment of a
national clearinghouse to provide training and technical assistance on
issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian and Alaska Native
women;

(12)
Office of Justice programs, including the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant Program, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, a
veterans treatment courts program, the Capital Litigation Improvement
Grant Program, the National Criminal History Improvement Program, and a
program to monitor prescription drugs and scheduled listed chemical
products; and

(13) Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS program).

Section
202
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to
term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or
facilitate an abortion.

Section
217
-

Prohibits the use of funds by a federal law enforcement officer to
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or
suspected to be an agent of a drug cartel, unless U.S. law enforcement
personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.

Section
219
-

Prohibits the use of funds to require a person licensed to engage in
the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or
importing or manufacturing ammunition to report information to DOJ
regarding the sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person.

Title
III
-
Science

Makes
appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP); (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for the
Office of the National Science Board.

Title
IV
-
Related Agencies

Makes
appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights, (2)
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), (3) the
International Trade Commission, (4) the Legal Services Corporation, (5)
the Marine Mammal Commission, (6) the Office of the United States Trade
Representative (USTR), and (7) the State Justice Institute.

Title
V
-
General Provisions

Section
501
-

Sets forth requirements, restrictions, and limitations on the use of funds appropriated by this Act.

Section
506
-

Makes any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the
United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or
subcontract funded by this Act.

Section
509
-

Prohibits the use of funds to promote the sale or export of tobacco or
tobacco products or to seek the removal by any foreign country of
restrictions on marketing of such products, except for restrictions
which are not applied equally to all tobacco products of the same type.

Section
517
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) support or justify the use of
torture by any official or contract employee of the U.S. government, or
(2) authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of
specified statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security
letters.

Section
526
-

Rescinds specified amounts of unobligated balances available to DOJ for specified accounts.

Section
529
-

Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) transfer or release to or within the
United States Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a
U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and who is or was
held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense (DOD); or (2) construct,
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories,
or possessions to detain or imprison such a detainee.

Section
531
-

Prohibits the distribution of funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries.

Section
534
-

Prohibits the use of funds for NASA or OSTP to develop, design, plan,
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or
contract to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally with
China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are
specifically authorized by a law enacted after this Act's enactment.

Specifies that such limitations shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP has certified:

(1)
pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other
information with national security or economic security implications to
China or a Chinese-owned company; and

(2)
will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been
determined by the United States to have direct involvement with
violations of human rights.

Section
535
-

Directs the head of any department, agency, board, or commission funded
by this Act to submit quarterly reports regarding the costs and
contracting procedures relating to each conference held by it during
FY2013 for which the cost to the government exceeded $20,000.

Section
536
-

Prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel
to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any
model of shotgun if:

(1) all other legal requirements with respect to the proposed importation are met; and

(2)
no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the
same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to
January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly
suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.

Section
542
-

Prohibits the use of funds by the Attorney General to originate or join
in any lawsuit that seeks to overturn, enjoin, or invalidate specified
immigration laws in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah.

Section
547
-

Prohibits the use of funds: (1) to defend against any action
challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or specified
provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,
or (2) to litigate against any of the states on behalf of the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pertaining to secret ballot union
elections.

Section
549
-

Prohibits the use of funds by DOJ: (1) to be a party to a single or
multi-state court settlement where funds are removed from any
residential mortgage-backed securitization trust, or (2) to bring any
action against a state for implementation of a state law requiring voter
identification.

Section
551
-

Prohibits the use of funds:

(1) to conduct the American Community Survey,

(2)
to enforce provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007 prohibiting federal agency procurement of an alternative or
synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use, other than for research or
testing, unless the contract specifies that the life cycle greenhouse
gas emissions associated with such fuel must be less than or equal to
such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel, or

(3) to implement the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order 13547.

Section
557
-

Reduces amounts available under specified headings under this Act and
increases the amounts available to DOJ for emergency federal law
enforcement assistance and to the Department of Commerce for NIST
industrial technology services.

Section
561
-

Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of the Defense of
Marriage Act, or (2) to carry out the activities of the Climate Change
education program or the functions of the Political Science Program in
the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the Directorate for
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of NSF.